Nationwide has taken the unusual step of using its buy to let lending arm - The Mortgage Works - to make...
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05 March 2024
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We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...
04 July 2023
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A letting agents’ trade body is urging the industry to sign a parliamentary petition calling for the Section 24 changes for...
21 February 2023
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The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are to reduce costs and to have the ability to focus...
01 August 2022
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The two main reasons that an agency decides to outsource are: 1.) To reduce costs 2.) To have the ability to focus on...
27 April 2022
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ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
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Propertymark has called for a return of mortgage interest relief and a review of landlord taxes to boost the rental sector. The...
15 September 2021
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Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...
14 January 2021
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...
05 November 2019
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A private landlord has gone on record to explain her own dilemma with a tenant - and why the government’s scrapping...
14 August 2019
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been put on the spot by the person many consider to be the country’s most...
30 May 2019
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A damning report on taxation in the private rental sector (PRS) has accused the treasury of appearing not to understand 'the...
10 May 2019
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Data from a Countrywide agency shows that 59 per cent of landlords who live in London purchased their buy to let...
15 April 2019
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There will be less buy to let remortgaging in future as landlords consolidate rather than expand their portfolios. The prediction comes from...
11 April 2019
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Another think-tank has come up with reforms which it wants the government to make to the private rental sector - and...
21 March 2019
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Income tax paid by buy to let landlords now exceeds £3.8 billion annually – that’s more than double Tesco’s entire annual...
12 March 2019
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The proportion of landlords considering commercial loans to fund purchases has doubled over the last 18 months as they try to...
27 February 2017
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The Mortgage Works, the buy to let lending arm of the Nationwide, has seen a dip in the amount borrowed by...
21 November 2016
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One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...
18 November 2016
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The attempt to seek a Judicial Review of legislation reducing the mortgage interest tax relief for landlords has failed. The case was...
06 October 2016
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Belvoir is calling on the government to reverse its punitive tax policies against buy to let and introduce incentives to make...
18 August 2016
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Franchise letting agency giant Winkworth is warning that London’s tenants face higher rents as some landlords sell investment properties in the...
13 November 2015
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The outgoing chief of Whitbread PLC has made a scathing attack on Airbnb and the government for its approach to what...
11 November 2015
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The controversial changes to landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief and to the wear and tear allowance “have failed to dampen the...
10 November 2015
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A prominent buying agent active in prime central London says the capital’s high end buy to let market will become less...
06 November 2015
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Savills says mainstream UK rents are likely to rise by an average of 16.5 per cent by the end of 2020...
06 November 2015
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Around 40 per cent of landlords are reporting an increase in tenant demand in their area in the past three months. A...
27 October 2015
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While almost every lettings organisation has been up in arms at the raft of tax changes for landlords suggested by Chancellor...
26 October 2015
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Measures which discourage investment in the private rented sector can only push up rents and harm tenants more than landlords, a...
20 October 2015
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The chairman of Choices letting agency says the government is wrong to say its proposed tax changes will create a level...
14 October 2015
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The online petition against the government's proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is "a waste of time" according to...
12 October 2015
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A mortgage chief has spelled out what many in the rental sector already know - that the new laws, rules and...
07 October 2015
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The government’s response to the online petition against proposed tax changes for buy to let investors is “unfair, incoherent and missing...
17 September 2015
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The Daily Telegraph has undertaken an interesting exercise which effectively challenges Chancellor George Osborne’s assertion that buy to let tax changes...
16 September 2015
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Research by a prominent letting agency chain suggests that despite the onslaught of red tape thrown at landlords, almost half are...
16 September 2015
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The chief executive of Zoopla has thrown his weight behind opposition to the government’s proposed restrictions on buy to let tax...
15 September 2015
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Opponents of the government’s attempt to end tax breaks for the buy to let sector now have a new opportunity to...
10 September 2015
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If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...
07 September 2015
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A firm of specialist solicitors claims that one in five landlords say they will be “out of business due to government...
01 September 2015
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The petition against the proposed tax changes outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in last month’s Budget has now achieved 20,000 signatures. This...
28 August 2015
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The founders of the website saynotogeorge.co.uk have stepped forward to explain why they have founded the campaign. Two Peterborough-based property developers are...
17 August 2015
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A new website - www.saynotogeorge.co.uk - has been set up as a nucleus for opposition to Chancellor George Osborne’s proposals to...
13 August 2015
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A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...
11 August 2015
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The Residential Landlords Association has launched a new campaign ‘toolkit’ to enable opponents of the proposed buy to let tax changes...
10 August 2015
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An online petition demanding the reinstatement of buy to let landlords' tax breaks has so far attracted 6,300-plus signatures. The petition, which...
03 August 2015
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A critic of the suggestion that buy to let landlords could set up companies to ‘beat’ the ending of tax breaks...
31 July 2015
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Pressure group Generation Rent - a thorn in the side of many property professionals in recent years - has launched a...
31 July 2015
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When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...
24 July 2015
From: Features
More and more agents are witnessing increases in the cost of renting, according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents. Its latest...
24 July 2015
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HMRC has revealed the scope of its proposed changes to the wear and tear allowance, as announced in George Osborne’s Budget...